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He violated new york regulations and an end user agreement. Nobody was hurt and from the sounds of it, he worked very hard to please his customers. There will

He violated new york regulations and an end user agreement. Nobody was hurt and from the sounds of it, he worked very hard to please his customers. There will be fines involved, because NYC wants their cut of the profits. I still don't consider what they did as 'bad things'.

jacques_chester 8y ago
> Nobody was hurt First: You don't know that. In fact the neighbours would disagree. Second: laws are intended to be preventative. Some of them are to prevent the bad outcome (manslaughter is illegal), some of them to prevent things that commonly lead to a bad outcome (campfires in my bedroom are illegal). If I build a campfire in my room and this time it doesn't destroy my building, that doesn't excuse me in law or ethics. I still did a dangerous thing, knowingly and recklessly. > There will be fines involved, because NYC wants their cut of the profits. There are fines involved because NYC operates, even its own gloriously half-arsed way, under the rule of law.
- jimrhods23 8y ago
  "First: You don't know that. In fact the neighbours would disagree." You don't know either. So I guess we are both speculating. "Second: laws are intended to be preventative. " Do you agree with all laws on the books? I sure don't. "I build a campfire in my room and this time it doesn't destroy my building, that doesn't excuse me in law or ethics. I still did a dangerous thing, knowingly and recklessly." Can you explain to me how having a legitimate business where nobody was scammed and the outcome was a happy customer is reckless? In addition to this, there were multiple jobs added to the economy as a result of their business venture. "There are fines involved because NYC operates, even its own gloriously half-arsed way, under the rule of law." The hotel lobby has lots of influence in NYC. It's a very similar situation to the taxicab unions. Some laws should be bent and broken..because they need to be changed.

jacques_chester 8y ago

> Nobody was hurt First: You don't know that. In fact the neighbours would disagree. Second: laws are intended to be preventative. Some of them are to prevent the bad outcome (manslaughter is illegal), some of them to prevent things that commonly lead to a bad outcome (campfires in my bedroom are illegal). If I build a campfire in my room and this time it doesn't destroy my building, that doesn't excuse me in law or ethics. I still did a dangerous thing, knowingly and recklessly. > There will be fines involved, because NYC wants their cut of the profits. There are fines involved because NYC operates, even its own gloriously half-arsed way, under the rule of law.

jimrhods23 8y ago
"First: You don't know that. In fact the neighbours would disagree." You don't know either. So I guess we are both speculating. "Second: laws are intended to be preventative. " Do you agree with all laws on the books? I sure don't. "I build a campfire in my room and this time it doesn't destroy my building, that doesn't excuse me in law or ethics. I still did a dangerous thing, knowingly and recklessly." Can you explain to me how having a legitimate business where nobody was scammed and the outcome was a happy customer is reckless? In addition to this, there were multiple jobs added to the economy as a result of their business venture. "There are fines involved because NYC operates, even its own gloriously half-arsed way, under the rule of law." The hotel lobby has lots of influence in NYC. It's a very similar situation to the taxicab unions. Some laws should be bent and broken..because they need to be changed.